Sketchbook: J.Ernstsson

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Hi, my name is Johan Ernstsson a game art student at The Game Assembly in Sweden. I will steer my career against environments with a focus on architecture. Here I will post my work while I move forward with my goal to become an environment artist.

I am looking for feedback and critic so please don´t hold back!

Ernst

I will start this thread with my upcoming 10-week project: Make a scene of Mathieu Latour-Duhaime´s Prague Feodal - DXMD concept piece.

Original:

My breakdown:

Blockout - First session:

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Iteration 2:

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This is certain not a new way to do this, but this helped me check my proportions on the buildings floor height: 

rgbeard

Looking forward to see your progression! ;D

Ernst

Door blockout, let's add some polys.

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Some baking and texture test in substance painter. I will probably not use this in the scene.

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Highpoly is done, and Substance Painter 2017 came out today. Let´s try it out!

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Playing around in substance painter, and I think I ´ll learn to love it!

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Another clean bake with texture painter!
 

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First layer of texture added:

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All this software to learn, all the techniques to master, it´s heavy but fun to learn! I have realized that maybe I won't be able to finish the scene in the given time, because I value to learn all techniques truly. So I experiment in Maya and I watches a lot och tutorials on people trying out different things!


Here is a snippet from my test scene, as I figured that a post without a picture is boring... : 

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Where are we? well, I have learned some ways to make a modular kit, but my biggest lesson is how long time each step takes. I will not be able to make the scene I first wanted to make, it is too big. But I will continue to build modular kits, this set will be one of the more futuristics in the scene, and after that, I will create one more detailed prop just for training sake.